The Nerds
I'm not prepared to claim that Eric Crampton and Benno Blaschke are the nerdiest of all the nerds involved with New Zealand's zoning reforms, but they are the only ones who happily self-identified as such on the air with me.
Crampton is the chief economist and Blaschke a research fellow with the Ne…
Eric Crampton: NZ Initiative Chief Economist on ACT's idea to introduce innovation trials to cut red tape
Restrictions on innovation are being seen as a form of self-sabotage.
ACT wants to introduce innovation trials – letting government ministers pause existing regulations if they block tests of new technology.
Leader David Seymour told innovators the country punches above its weight when we bac…
What should a parliamentary budget office look like?
With a slew of policy announcements, there also comes fresh calls for a Parliamentary Budget Office. But what should the remit of such an institution be? The House chats to Economist Dr Eric Crampton about the proposal.
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Dr Eric Crampton: NZ Initiative Chief Economist on Government's $60m cement plant bailout
The Government’s carbon credit trading scheme could have shut New Zealand’s only cement manufacturing plant, but Fletcher Building announced today it got a $60 million bailout to keep it running - the $60m is not a loan.
NZ Initiative Chief Economist Dr Eric Crampton told Heather du Plessis-Allan …
Group Bans on Immigration Don't Work | Eric Crampton
Peter Boghossian questions economist Eric Crampton on sin taxes, immigration policy, and government debt. Crampton explains why sugar and tobacco taxes rarely change behavior, why blanket immigration bans fail, and why New Zealand's fiscal discipline beats America's.
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Breaking up the supermarkets is hard to do... and a bad idea
In this episode, Oliver talks with Eric Crampton, chief economist at the New Zealand Initiative, about his new paper "Breaking up the supermarkets is hard to do... and a bad idea", which finds the promised savings rest on an untested assumption about how Foodstuffs prices its supermarket banners.
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A referee for the price of land
New Zealand has new planning laws. They passed in September and replace the Resource Management Act. Right at the end, Parliament added something no other country has: a land markets officer.
Think of the officer as a referee. Councils make rules about what can be built and where. If those rules l…
Replacing the RMA (Part 1): a new system, but the rules are still to come
In this episode, Dr Eric Crampton talks to Nick Clark and new senior fellow Paul Melville about the two new acts replacing the Resource Management Act and what the new system gets right, including standardised zoning and a new Urban Land Market Officer. They also weigh up how much has been left for…
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